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The Sublime Somi Bridges African and Western Jazz
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“Resident Evil” Is Fun, but Soulless. What Else Could It Be?
Cregger’s film is on track to become the most profitable movie in the entire “Resident Evil” series, grossing sixty million dollars domestically in its opening weekend. GQ and Esquire have...
Startup Competition From Stan Puts $100K on 100 Founders
Stan announced Launchpad on September 22, a 14-day founder competition. Programming stretches from October 4 to October 19, and the location is a private retreat in the Pocono Mountains, roughly...
AI Tools for Business Get Cheaper as OpenAI Cuts API Prices in Half
OpenAI cut its API prices in half on September 22 by releasing two fresh models, Sol and Luna, both carrying the GPT-6 label, and the company says the new rates...
Godot Engine Business Grows as W4 Raises $18M
Dublin-based W4 Games raised $18 million in a Series B led by Tencent, money it will spend building enterprise tooling around the open-source Godot Engine and pushing into Asia. The...
Tech IPO Market Gets Its First Real Test
Smart ring maker Oura opened its investor roadshow on Monday, asking investors for a fully diluted value of $15.62 billion and making it the largest tech IPO to test US...
Kate Atkinson’s Obsession with History
“The book is a repository for the past,” Kate Atkinson once remarked about her début work. “The book is, in its own way, my own museum.” Few literary novelists are...
Annie Dillard’s Subject Was the Whole World
A hint of her post-“Pilgrim” strife can be detected in “Holy the Firm,” her most concentrated examination of the problem of suffering. There she talks about camping in the Blue...
Customer Acquisition Tracking Separates Growing Firms
PYMNTS Intelligence published new SMB Growth Monitor findings on Monday showing that owners who formally log where each customer came from grew revenue at more than double the rate of...
M&A Trends Point to a Recovery Only at the Top
Boston Consulting Group released its M&A Report 2026 on Monday, and the top-line figure reads well. Deal value from January through August came in 15% higher than the same stretch...
